Immortality, a complex societal rating system, multiple personalities, advanced technologies, big space opera style elements, many questions that let Immortality, a complex societal rating system, multiple personalities, advanced technologies, big space opera style elements, many questions that let the reader philosophize after finishing the book, what more could one wish for.
One of the best, if not the best, German Sci-Fi author. Yes, there is Andreas Eschbach too, but he tends to write more character-centric works in a nowaday setting and avoid high, complex Sci-Fi, while Brandhorst writes Space operas at the same level as the global behemoths of the genre and he should get international attention and publication. Especially how he is integrating philosophical and ethical questions in his works reminds me a bit of Iain M Banks, Neal Stephenson and some of the more unknown founding fathers of Sci-Fi.
And he is the ingenious German translator of Terry Pratchett's works that became unreadable as soon as the pitiful publisher decided to choose another translator (Booooooo!) who had no intention and interest in dealing with the complex Discworld vocabulary, especially names and words and ruined everything. ...more
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